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During the Berkeleyan period this species was collected occa- 
sionally in various parts of the world, and almost as often described 
as new. Material from Cuba (Wright, No. 369) was given the 
name Peziza viridi-atra B. & C. Examination of the type, at 
Kew, shows it to be identical with the Schweinitzian plant. 
Saccardo placed it in Pezicula. Specimens from Ceylon were 
called Patellaria applanata B. & Br. The writer has not seen the 
type, but Massee, on examination, declared it to be Patinella 
olivacea (C. nigro-olivacea). On the basis of the same evidence 
the same writer included P. violacea B. & Br. and P. hirneola 
B. & Br., also from Ceylon, as synonyms. In the original descrip- 
tion of P. applanata the authors mentioned a “United States 
specimen.’ Material so labeled in the herbaria of Fries and the 
Philadelphia Academy of Science, collected in South Carolina, 
by Curtis, has been examined, and certainly belongs here. Addi- 
tional collections reported from Connecticut (Wright), Pennsyl- 
vania (Michener), and North Carolina (Curtis) have not been 
seen. 
No specimen of Rhizina nigro-olivacea Curr. has been available 
to the writer. But since both Phillips and Massee (the latter 
after examination of the type) place it as a synonym of P. olivacea, 
there seems to be no doubt of its identity with C. nigro-olivacea. 
Peziza fuscocarpa Ell. & Hol. was described from material col- 
lected in lowa by Holway. It has been referred to Phaeopezig by 
Saccardo, to Humaria by Morgan, and to Aleurina by Saccardo & 
Sydow, and by Rehm. This specific name is the one under which 
the plant here considered has commonly been reported or dis- 
tributed in America. The type is identical with Peziza nigro- 
olivacea L. v.S. The writer has received it from many localities 
and has had abundant opportunity to study it in the fresh con- 
dition in all stages of development. 
Of all the references of the present species made by Saccardo, 
the most curious is that where Peziza nigro-olivacea L. v. S. is 
made a synonym of Mollisia umbonata (Pers.) Sacc. To Per- 
soon’s specific description are appended verbatim Fries’s observa- 
tions comparing Schweinitz’s plant with Patellaria pulla Fr., a 
totally different plant from Persoon’s. This confusion may be 
due to a mixing of notes. o 
